Fight Club - Football Crowds

[leeroy*NRL*]

12,000 Is pathetic,

it will replace Monday as they worst for crowds for the NRL
great tv winner but shocking attendances.

[The axe]

12,000 Is pathetic,

it will replace Monday as they worst for crowds for the NRL
great tv winner but shocking attendances.

The AFL get to have both, I guess that's why it's so far in front. Another huge crowd last night I see.

[BruceOfRedfernNSW]

On Sunday, Wests Tigers drew a crowd of just 6,711 to their home game.

On Monday evening, Canberra Raiders attracted a crowd of only 6,717 to their home game.

Scoffing Leaguies once berated GWS for such low attendances. But how things have changed!

GWS's home game average in Sydney in 2015 has climbed to 11,132. Above Canberra Raiders, Wests Tigers and Manly, and equal to Gold Coast Titans.

KE howled in this forum, a prophet of GWS's doom, his crystal ball foretelling the inevitable downfall of the AFL's newest club.

Where is KE's squeaky little voice now. Like a hideous skunk, hiding in a dark safe hole, he avoids the inevitable and remorseless advance of the bastion of Australian sporting culture. AFL football.

Nothing can stop it.

[pussycat]

the Roosters got over 20k on Fri night.

[leagueiscrap]

the Roosters got over 20k on Fri night.

But but but millions of people love their league!
Moron

[ParraEelsNRL]

Well yeah, but the roosters are not one of the popular teams now are they?

The PNG Hunters will have an average crowd higher than 3 quarters of the Sydney teams next yeah all codes included, big whoop.

They are also the highest rating club in Australasia all sport included, but don't you worry, Thugby Weague is dying

[AFLcrap1]

True that Parra .

RL was going backwards 35 yrs ago ..the taaards believed it .
Same crap sprouted now .


Lol they still believe it .

Seriously how brainwashed are some of these fumblers

[pussycat]

Largest Crowds in Melbourne (home of AFL) this year.

1.Soccer 99k
2. Cricket 93k
3. League 91.5k
4. AFL 88k (No medal but tried hard).

[AFLcrap1]

Largest Crowds in Melbourne (home of AFL) this year.

1.Soccer 99k
2. Cricket 93k
3. League 91.5k
4. AFL 88k (No medal but tried hard).

:_<> :_<> :_<> :_<>
In the spirit of fumble ball
Give em 1 unco point for trying.

[ParraEelsNRL]

Well yeah, but the roosters are not one of the popular teams now are they?

The PNG Hunters will have an average crowd higher than 3 quarters of the Sydney teams next yeah all codes included, big whoop.

They are also the highest rating club in Australasia all sport included, but don't you worry, Thugby Weague is dying

The PNG Hunters are in the NRL now? No?

Highest rating club in Australasia? You have figures for this?

Didn't mean it to sound like I meant them in the NRL sorry I you did.

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/the-fitz-fi ... jpptq.html

Hunters firing
Walking the Kokoda Track in New Guinea a little over a decade ago, I was stunned at how, even in the most remote regions, the most highly prized item of traditional dress appeared to be ... a Canberra Raiders jersey! No matter that Mal Meninga had retired over a decade earlier, his legend lived on, as it does to this day, and he enjoys near God-like status in that wonderfully mysterious country to our north. As do many of the league players. There is just something about the game that fascinates the Papua New Guineans and the wonderful breakthrough in recent times has been a team from that nation, the PNG Hunters, competing in the Intrust Super Cup, Queensland's state rugby league comp. And they're going well!
A fascinating piece in the Guardian this week, by Patrick Skene, quoted their coach, Michael Marum saying, "At village level rugby league has replaced clan warfare. At a national level the PNG Hunters are bringing the nation together. Millions are watching."
Sport as a unifying force! Skene notes how in a nation of 1400 islands, 1000 ethnic groups and 800 languages it is no small thing to have the people united behind a common love - rugby league – and the Hunters, are delivering in spades. After losing three of their first six matches this season, they then had 17 unbeaten matches.
"The Hunters are the only professional rugby league team in the world that all live together 24/7," said Marum. "It's unique. They all get paid exactly the same amount every fortnight and for our society it's good money."
They talk in pidgin on the field, and it works, as the whole nation gets behind them. After a loss to Townsville last weekend, on Sunday they go up against the Ipswich Jets for a chance to get back on track, and into the grand final.
Win, lose or draw, how wonderful if the NRL could put them up against a NSW team as a curtain-raiser before the grand final in Sydney. Let's have a look at them!


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http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2 ... mad-nation

. Indeed the on-field success of the Hunters has echoed like birdsong across PNG, delivering regional television audiences bigger than any NRL club.

[ParraEelsNRL]

PM's XIII game tonight was watched by a record 18,000.

I think PNG are going to knock the NRL's door down tbph

Good luck to them.

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... jvoj6.html

18,113 fans in a 15,000 seat stadium

I don't think they have had an NRL trial, they've never had the stadiums before and they still have their bigger permanent stadium being built. The city will have two new stadiums, the one the Hunters have just started using (15k capacity which has been broke in it's first 4 or 5 games in a row) which has an athletics track so I suppose they could play AFL with some covering or something else and they do play AFL I won't deny that.



Maybe they could convert the ground to AFL and cricket when athletics isn't on?

And they have their new Rugby stadium being finished now and it's supposed to be a bit bigger than the current ground so who knows how many they'll squeeze into the joint.

[ParraEelsNRL]

Watch this video wookie and you'll see why touring teams now have it a lot easier, there's a pom tour I can't find, it's called something from hell or like that, how times have changed.

[ParraEelsNRL]

They have sponsorship lining up to their ying yang for a crack at the NRL. One place they will not have a problem, and the plus side is if they did, the Government would step in. But it'd have to be dire for that to happen unless it was corruption and png is known for that. I'm sure it would be set up right, but they won't get anywhere for at least 10-15 years no matter how good they are you'd think, there are a lot of things to watch for yet.

Like how will the crowds react when a big match comes around and they lose on the bell? Will some riot like in the past? Will tear gas and rubber bullets be needed?

I would love to see a team from there represent the nation in the NRL, but it's going to take time yet.

[ParraEelsNRL]

Cowboys bandwagon.

[ParraEelsNRL]

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Prime Minister Peter O'Neill is hopeful to host the Rugby League World Cup in the country and some of the stadiums in Port Moresby will be extended to capacity of 50 000 seats or more.

http://kumuls.pngfacts.com/news/png-to- ... um=twitter

Good stuff PNG, kick that door down.